Duolingo

“The spokespeople for these brands are great because as an end user, you don't want to follow another brand. It's like, I want to follow an actual person. I want to follow like a movement.”

“Almost everyone in leadership gets a person. So Anna who runs people, we have Christine, who's the chief people officer from Duolingo. Moody Glasgow was the CMO of Zapier and Glassdoor. He does marketing. There's a guy named Colin Gardner. He does revenue. So …”

“I also think there's just, there's an opportunity to be the anti Duolingo.”

“For the same reason that Duolingo is so big, there's so, so few people trying, which just makes it so much easier to succeed when applying these sort of new wave tactics.”

“Both Shopify and Duolingo came out saying basically all of the employees have to learn all the AI tools, plus they're not going to hire people who don't know how to use the tools anymore. So it's now an entry requirement.”

“I think if Duolingo were to start today, it might look something more like this.”